A new online service has launched aiming to help people know in real time just when it is safe to go back in the water.<\/p>\n
Authorities in South Australia have upgraded a website which will allow beachgoers to keep others posted when they believe they have seen a shark.<\/p>\n
The service allows people to report when they have seen a shark \u2013 with their reports immediately published in real-time.<\/p>\n
Reports are then reviewed by the staff at the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) to allow for duplicate or false records to be removed.<\/p>\n
A PIRSA statement on the change reads: \u201cThe improvement makes it easier for beachgoers, fisheries and boaters to stay informed about recent shark activity in their area.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you see a shark, report it promptly to keep everyone informed.<\/p>\n
Stickers containing a QR card linking to the report page have also been placed in various coastal locations, including in selected tackle shops.<\/p>\n
Since its launch, the page has seen a handful of reports made, both by members of the public and by South Australia Police.<\/p>\n
The most recent report was made on at 12.30pm on Friday, April 10, with a report filed by a police office of an unknown shark off the coast of Aldinga.<\/p>\n
Other reports include a sighting of what was believed to be a thresher shark at Port Moorowie on April 7 and a suspected white shark at Robe, off the Limestone Coast on April 5.<\/p>\n
It comes just days after a 16-year-old surfer reported being bitten by a shark at Middleton Beach over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n
Oliver Tokic-Bensley told ABC news he felt lucky not to have lost his foot in the incident.<\/p>\n
He said\u201d I felt something sharp, I sort of jumped when it got me and then I kicked my foot away and luckily it didn\u2019t hold onto me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new online service has launched aiming to help people know in real time just when it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[292283,1724,64,292293,63,689,292290,266829,292294,169575,57055,292280,292287,3354,677,292282,260938,292285,52748,292284,292288,292279,292278,292281,128,292291,292289,292295,292286,942,1124,2812,292292,282538,3439,89060,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-599368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-aldinga","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-aussie-state","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-card-linking","15":"tag-david-hannant","16":"tag-deemed-flight-riskben","17":"tag-great-white","18":"tag-harry","19":"tag-launches-real-time-shark","20":"tag-middleton-beach","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-oceania","23":"tag-oliver-tokic-bensley","24":"tag-online-service","25":"tag-port-moorowie","26":"tag-primary-industries","27":"tag-real-time-shark","28":"tag-real-time-shark-report","29":"tag-real-time-shark-reporting","30":"tag-real-time-shark-warning","31":"tag-real-time-shark-warnings","32":"tag-science","33":"tag-selected-tackle-shops","34":"tag-shark-activity","35":"tag-shark-report-site","36":"tag-shark-warning-site","37":"tag-singapore","38":"tag-south-australia","39":"tag-south-eastern-asia","40":"tag-state-launches","41":"tag-thresher-shark","42":"tag-western-australia","43":"tag-white-shark","44":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}